Ten best books on war

Max Hastings's latest book is Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945.One of his ten best books on war, as told to the Observer in 2010:Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky, 2004Wars are too often perceived simply as successions of campaigns and battles. Most are better examined in the Tolstoyan fashion, as vast human upheavals which inflict suffering on millions who are obliged to serve as hapless